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In his book A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway once described this author's talent as:
"natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time she/he understood it no more than the butterfly did and she/he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later she/he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and she/he could only remember when it had been effortless."

a. Gertrude Stein
b. Hemingway, Ernest
c. Ezra Pound
d. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
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Gertrude Stein

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born

February 03, 1874

died

July 27, 1946

gender

female

place of birth

Allegheny, Pennsylvania, The United States

genre

Nonfiction, Arts & Photography

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Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.

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books by Gertrude Stein

avg rating: 3.83 | 4,100 ratings | 398 reviews | 89 distinct works | 28 fans

	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.68 — 1,073 ratings — published 1933 16 editions	my rating:
	Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.97 — 732 ratings — published 1970 13 editions	my rating:
	Three Lives by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.31 — 434 ratings — published 1909 25 editions	my rating:
	Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein avg rating 4.07 — 164 ratings — published 1990 3 editions	my rating:
	Picasso by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.96 — 126 ratings — published 1959 7 editions	my rating:
	How to Write by Gertrude Stein avg rating 4.08 — 116 ratings — published 1973 5 editions	my rating:
	The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.89 — 100 ratings — published 1946 5 editions	my rating:
	Three Lives and Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.78 — 90 ratings — published 2003 2 editions	my rating:
	Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein avg rating 3.94 — 81 ratings — published 1971 4 editions	my rating:
	Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein avg rating 4.43 — 67 ratings — published 1994	my rating: